Serial Killer in Iran, The Forbidden Chapter (DVD)

Serial Killer a National Hero in Iran
In most places, a person who admits to happily being a serial killer of
prostitutes would be reviled - but in Iran, such a person becomes a
national hero. Granted, most people in Iran are disgusted and outraged at
Saeed Hanaei having murdered 16 woman, but there are far too many have
praised and supported him.

Hanaei confessed to the killings, smiled for news photographers and proudly told
the court that he was fighting a crusade against moral corruption and vice. He
and his lawyer cited an ambiguous provision in Iranian and Islamic law that
refers to sinners as a "waste of blood", arguing that Hanaei deserved
lenient treatment. The case provoked a debate between reformers who condemned
the authorities for failing to catch him earlier and some conservatives who
shared the killer's disgust with a rise in prostitution.

"Who is to be judged?" wrote the conservative newspaper Jomhuri
Islami. "Those who look to eradicate the sickness or those who stand at the
root of the corruption?" Such sentiments are expressed by the killer's
merchant friends at the Mashhad bazaar, one of whom says with a laugh: "He
did the right thing. He should have continued."

Hanaei was executed last year, still screaming in shock that he wasn't going
to be rescued by conservatives in the Iranian government. What is disturbing
about this case is how extreme violence against those who are most powerless and
vulnerable can be justified by extreme religious beliefs and absolutist ideas
about morality and sexual purity. All that mattered about these women is that
they sold sex for money - not their suffering, not their deaths, not the grief
of their children, and not even the social circumstances that led them to a life
of prostitution.

Religious extremists place their interpretation of God's principles of sexual
purity far ahead of human love and kindness, and for that they diminish their
own humanity. They are able representatives of other-worldly systems in which
the human factor is the least important.

Runtime: 1 Hours

Format: On
DVDsType: Documentary Language: In Farsi &
English with English subtitles, Color

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